‘Rampage’ Challenges Paul To Openweight MMA Fight

After watching Paul beat up Mike Tyson and call out Conor McGregor, ‘Rampage’ Jackson wants to teach ‘The Problem Child’ a lesson in the cage.

Quinton “Rampage” Jackson is past his fighting prime, but is he far enough past his fighting prime to land a bout with Jake Paul?

That’s the question we’re asking ourselves as the former PRIDE FC middleweight UFC light heavyweight champion throws his name into the hat of potential future Paul opponents. The 46-year-old took to X (formerly Twitter) and challenged the YouTuber-turned-boxer over his decision to fight Mike Tyson and … disrespect of Conor McGregor?

The day after he beat an elderly Tyson via decision in a sideshow boxing match that left everyone feeling gross, the 227 pound Paul turned his attention to the former UFC featherweight champion McGregor.

“Dear Conor, I know you told my team you would fight me at 170lbs,” Paul tweeted. “That’s never happening. But let’s run it in MMA. No weight class. Just like how it used to be done. But you won’t.”

“Yo Jake Paul, watch how you talk to MMA royalty,” Jackson replied. “I’ll fight you in MMA no weight class for no pay. That’s a great deal … but i bet YOU won’t. Stop disrespecting people in my f—in’ sport, homie. You fighting Tyson was [the] last straw. Go back to boxing wrestlers.”

“Rampage” was once one of the baddest men in the sport of MMA, but that was back in the early 2000s, over twenty years ago. He hasn’t fought in nearly five years, and showed up for his last bout looking slow and ‘hippo’ fat. He does look a lot better on his Jaxxon Podcast, but if there’s one thing the Jake Paul circus should have taught y’all by now, it’s that the clock doesn’t turn backwards.

When someone commented that Jackson didn’t have the gas tank to beat Paul, Jackson joked back that the fight would have to be three rounds, but that would be enough.

“I can get my cardio good enough to beat the f— out that kid,” he said. As for all the suggestions that Paul pays big bucks so his opponents take dives? “Not enough money in the world for me to throw a fight to that guy.”

“Dude is one of the most famous people in the states right now,” Rampage tweeted. “He doesn’t need me for s—. I’m just sick of him picking his own opponents in lopsided fights.”

We have bad news for “Rampage” — if he did happen to be the next winner of the Jake Paul Sandbagging Sweepstakes, it would be another perfect example of Paul picking a lopsided fight.

Funny enough, Quinton checks a lot of the boxes Paul looks for when picking his opponents. Former UFC champion? Check. Over the hill? Check. Questionable cardio? Check. Knockout power in his prime that is now gone? Check. Popularity? Check. If Jake Paul wasn’t coming off the biggest fight of his career against Mike Tyson, we’d say Jackson had a pretty good chance of getting a call from Most Valuable Promotions.

As it stands, Paul’s manager Nakisa Bidarian is looking for a grand slam level opponent. A Conor McGregor level opponent.

“I do believe, and I have said this on record, [McGregor] is the only fight today in the world that could garner the same kind of attention that Jake Paul and Mike Tyson did,” he said on a recent episode of The Ariel Helwani Show. “I believe there is bigger money fights for Jake Paul, like a Canelo [Alvarez], like a Gervonta Davis because the U.S. will eat that up and the pay-per-view dollars will be massive. But in terms of hitting every corner of the world, every geography, every language, every creed, every religion, that [McGregor] fight would do that.”

Unfortunately for Bidarian and Paul, McGregor is under contract with UFC for two more fights … or as Paul would call it, he’s being held ‘hostage’ for two more fights.